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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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